Roseanne Liang

Chinese New Zealander Roseanne Liang took an unusual path into filmmaking. She first made a splash with Banana in a Nutshell, based on her own cross-cultural romance with a European Kiwi. The documentary won multiple awards, including SPADA New Filmmaker of 2005; then she turned it into movie rom-com My Wedding and Other Secrets. Liang has also directed Berlin-winning short Take 3, and hit web series Flat3.

Probably the most difficult thing was separating the documentary from the film. Even though the documentary forms the backbone of the film, you really have to find out what makes fiction work.
Roseanne Liang, on making a movie out of her documentary Banana in a Nutshell